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1:30
Asking Facilitative Questions
Grade:
5
4:03
Belmont-Cragin Classroom Overview
Grade:
K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
2:34
Conferring: Adding Actions to Poetry
Grade:
1
3:07
Conferring: Adding Details to Fiction
Grade:
2
2:40
Conferring: Adding Sensory Details to Personal Narrative
Grade:
4
2:17
Conferring: Finding Big Ideas in Opinion Writing
Grade:
2
3:14
Conferring: Focusing Opinion Writing
Grade:
5
4:07
Conferring: Letter Writing
Grade:
2
2:13
Conferring: Primary Overview
1:39
Conferring: Writing Personal Narratives with a Beginning, Middle, and End
Grade:
1
3:20
Cooperative Structures: Overview
Grade:
3, 4, 5
8:49
Exclusion Class Meeting
Grade:
2
8:02
Getting Ready for a Substitute Teacher Class Meeting
Grade:
3
3:31
Increasing Student Talk: Think, Pair, Share
Grade:
5
2:42
Independent Reading: Conferring about the Main Character
9:59
Independent Reading: Conferring with Students
Grade:
2, 5
6:40
Independent Reading: Shopping for Books
2:51
Reading Comprehension: Inferences About Cause and Effect—Day 1
Grade:
6
4:06
Reading Comprehension: Inferences About Cause and Effect—Day 2
Grade:
6
6:21
Reading Comprehension: Inferences About Cause and Effect—Day 3
Grade:
6
5:01
Reading Comprehension: Inferences About Cause and Effect—Day 4
Grade:
6
3:03
Reading Comprehension: Making inferences - Day 1
Grade:
4
4:06
Reading Comprehension: Making Inferences—Day 2
Grade:
4
4:21
Reading Comprehension: Making Inferences—Day 3
Grade:
4
13:47
Reading Comprehension: Visualizing
Grade:
1
2:09
Reflecting: Sharing One Sentence with Sensory Details
Grade:
4
2:25
Reflecting: Students Share One Line from a Poem - Primary
Grade:
1
1:51
Responding Neutrally with Interest: Overview
Grade:
4
7:01
Teacher Facilitation Techniques
Grade:
1, 4, 5
11:49
Teasing Class Meeting
Grade:
5
2:23
Using Think, Pair, Share—Intermediate
Grade:
4
1:56
Using Think, Pair, Share—Primary
Grade:
2
1:49
Using Turn to Your Partner—Intermediate
Grade:
5
2:12
Using Turn to Your Partner—Primary
Grade:
2
43:14:00
Webinar: Growing a Collaborative Classroom—Three Essentials with Ann Marie Corgill
1:01:36
Webinar: Implementing the CCSS—Comprehension, Close Reading, and the Common Core with P. David Pearson
8:28
Writing Expository Nonfiction: Peer Conferring
Grade:
4, 5
9:18
Writing Expository Nonfiction: Researching and Taking Notes
Grade:
4, 5
2:42
Writing Expository Nonfiction: Researching and Taking Notes (Short Version)
Grade:
4, 5
3:05
Writing Expository Nonfiction: Student Reflection
Grade:
4, 5
11:42
Writing Expository Nonfiction: Tapping Curiosity
Grade:
4, 5
6:04
Writing Personal Narratives: Telling More
Grade:
1
3:06
Writing Personal Narratives: Telling More Mini-lesson
Grade:
1
10:31
Writing Personal Narratives: Writing About My Feelings
Grade:
1
2:37
Writing: Building a Community
Grade:
3, 4, 5
3:19
Writing: Managing Pair Conferences
Grade:
3, 4, 5
Articles and Downloadable Resources
Analysis of Schoolwide Community
This is a simple survey you can use to reflect on the climate and culture of your school.
Common Core State Standards Course: Facilitator's Guide
What shifts are necessary to address the Common Core in our classrooms? This facilitator's guide lays out agendas and everything needed to facilitate sessions.
Common Core State Standards Course: Participant’s Binder
What shifts are necessary to address the Common Core in our classrooms? This participant’s binder includes note-taking sheets, the standards, sample lessons, articles, reflection activities, and more.
Community Teambuilder
This teambuilder activity works for groups of any size.
Consultancy Protocol
A problem-solving protocol that helps teachers learn from each other's wisdom.
Every Child, Every Day
Author:
Richard Allington
This article highlights instructional moves teachers can make that don’t require any new materials.
Facilitation Techniques Description
A description of some key facilitation techniques.
Facilitation Techniques Reference List
A reference list of facilitation techniques.
First Eight Weeks Class Meetings (grades 2–6)
This resource supports teachers in building relationships, setting norms, discussing playground behavior, and establishing a sense of community.
First Eight Weeks Class Meetings (grades K–1)
This document supports teachers in building relationships, setting norms, discussing playground behavior, and establishing a sense of community.
Impact of SEL on Academics
Author:
CASEL
Key findings from the past 20 years about the link between SEL and academics.
Penny Teambuilder
Teambuilder for PLCs or smaller groups.
Social and Emotional Learning Gaining New Focus Under Common Core
Author:
Jane Meredith Adams
This document discusses the central role of SEL in preparing for the Common Core.
Social and Emotional Learning in Schools: From Programs to Strategies
Author:
Stephanie M. Jones and Suzanne M. Bouffard
What does the research say about the integration of SEL and academics?
Spheres of Control
Author:
Elena Aguilar
How can we focus our conversations and energy on what we can control?
Staff Check-in Meeting
Use this structure for staff check-ins around any topic.
Staff Decision Making Meeting
Use this structure for staff decision making around any topic.
Staff Norm-setting Meeting
Use this structure for staff to set norms together.
Staff Problem Solving Meeting
Use this structure for staff problem solving around any topic.
The Benefits of School-based Social and Emotional Learning Programs: Highlights from a Major New Study
This meta-analysis shows the benefits of SEL.
The Lesson Planning Handbook: Essential Strategies That Inspire Student Thinking and Learning—Appendix
Author:
Peter Brunn
Lesson Planning Reflection Questions to use when planning for a more collaborative classroom.
Ways We Want Our School to Be Template
This template captures a vision of how we want our schools to be.
Blogs
Authentic Learning to Engage Learners
by
Kathy King-Dickman
An educator discusses how to provide authentic writing opportunities.
Building a Community of Educators
by
Kelli Cedo
An administrator sets school culture as her top priority.
Building an Adult Learning Community
by
Michele Krank
A teacher leader builds an adult learning community with intentionality.
Engaging the Disengaged, Number 1
by
Kathy King-Dickman
What’s most central to learning? Relationships.
Engaging the Disengaged, Number 2
by
Kathy King-Dickman
The importance of answering the question “Why?”
Engaging the Disengaged, Number 3
by
Kathy King-Dickman
How can we best support those far behind in reading?
Engaging the Disengaged, Number 4
by
Kathy King-Dickman
How can we individualize reading experiences for struggling readers?
Engaging the Disengaged, Number 5
by
Kathy King-Dickman
How can we motivate students through strength-based teaching?
Engaging the Disengaged, Number 6
by
Kathy King-Dickman
How can we facilitate learning in a Collaborative Classroom?
Engaging the Disengaged, Number 7
by
Kathy King-Dickman
How do we connect with students to support their writing?
Five Reasons to Try Student Blogs in Your Classroom
by
Cary Kirby
Use blogs to increase engagement through authentic audiences.
Lessons All Around Us
by
Paul Houston
Why empathy and compassion matter—and one great example of a life lived according to those values.
Little Words Mean a Lot
by
Paul Houston
How could a slight shift in our teaching stance impact the culture we are creating?
Preserving Student Choice: Writing about Farts
by
Maureen Szychlinski
Choice (and mess) are important in writer's workshops.
Providing Challenge for High-achieving Learners in the Regular Classroom
by
Cary Kirby
Simplify differentiation through expectations and choice.
Sometimes Silence Speaks Volumes
by
Kathy King-Dickman
In order to be a truly great facilitator or teacher, we don't need to have all the answers.
Summer Reading: Why Is It So Hard?
by
Peter Brunn
What role can we play in motivating students as readers?
The Art of Listening
by
Kathy King-Dickman
Make space to hear what students truly think.
The Wise Leader (Part 1)
by
Paul Houston
Effective school leaders share a few key characteristics.
The Wise Leader (Part 2)
by
Paul Houston
Lead effectively through balance.
The Wise Leader (Part 3)
by
Paul Houston
Lead effectively through focus and more.
The Wise Leader (Part 4)
by
Paul Houston
Lead effectively by staying open.
Voices: Giving Students the Right to Write
by
Kathy King-Dickman
Empower students to write for authentic reasons and real audiences.
What Does It Mean to “Manage Response Rates”? How Do I Do It? And Why Should I Care?
by
Cary Kirby
A veteran teacher offers great advice on increasing students’ active participation.